Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-07-09
PROGRAM
OF THE
National CoIored Press Convention
AT
LOUISVILLE, KY,
TUESDAY, AUGUST 9th, 1881 PM.

4 SAOV1LAES n 1.y
TUESDAY, AUGUST 9th, 1881 IN.
OPENING EXERCISES
/ lst.-Prayer.
2nd-Appointment of Committee on
Credentials.
Srd.-Appointment of Committee on
Rules.
4th.-Short Addresses.
5th.-7Report of Committee on Gre
jentials.
6th.-Report of Committee on Rules.
| 9TH. Election Of Officers.
EVENING SESSION.
lst.-Installion of Officers.
| 2nd-WeIcoming Address BY Prof.
VIM. j. Simmons.
3rd.-Responded to by the President.
4th.-"P Power ofthe Negro Press::n a.
NJ. p. Review, Philadelphia, chairman;
WESTERN APPEAL, Minnesota; Weekly
News, Atlanta, Ga; Negro American,
Boston, Mass; Capitol, Springfield, Ill.
Templar, Jacksonville, Fla; Radical,
st. Joseph, Mo. Discussion thereon.
9th. Committee Report on Discussion
"On the Religious, Educational and
Social Status of the Colored People:''
Rev. b. +. Lee, Christian Recorder,
Philadelphia, Pa, chairman; Southern
Advocate, Louisiana; Georgia Baptist,
Georgia; Gold Eagle, Tennessee; Alum
nus, Pennsylvania; Western Baptist
Herald, Iowa; Christian Star, Texas;
Christian Index, Mississippi; Star of
Zion, North Carolina; Afro-American
Churchman, Virginia; Pioneer, Texas;
Peoples Journal, Florida; Oxford AID.
vocate, North Carolina; Journal, Indian
apolis, Ind; American Catholic Tribune,
Cincinnati.
SECOND DAY-MoRNING SESSION.
lst.-Uusal or New Business.
2nd-Reports of committee and dis
cQssion thereon.
3rd.-"The Relation of the Afro Amer
lean to Existing Political Parties:''' T. T..
Fortune, New York Freeman; A. F.
Bradley, Chicago Observer; John W.
Cromwell, Peoples Advocate; ]. A.
Arneaux, New York Enterprise; L. G.
Wheeler, Chicago Conservator; L. A.
Martinez, Louisiana Standard; J. H.
Keeble, Free Lance; R. R. Wright,
Weekly Sentinel; G. J. Peery, Tribune,
Philadelphia, Pa. Papers, fifteen min
utes each.
4th.-s Industrial Education Dis
cusslon thereon: St. Louis Advance,
Missouri, chairman; Memphis Watch
man Tennessee; Arkansas Review, Ar
kansas; American Baptist, Kentucky !;
Phoenix, Georgia; St. Mary's Herald,
Louisiana; Southern Independence, Al
ALBANIA; Maryland Director, Maryland.
9th. IN Report of Committee on
Southern Ortrages: Rt. Rev. III. NJ. Tur-
ner, Southern Recorder, chairman;
Planet, Virginia; Sun, Arkansas; Allan
ia Defiance, Georgia; Gate City Press,
Missouri; Boston Advocate, Massa-
chusetts; Baptist Advocate, Louisiana;
Baptist Standard, North Carolina; Vir-
ginia Critic, Virginia; knights of Wise
Men, Tennessee; Ohio Falls Express,
KY; Indicator, San Francisco.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
1st.-" Labor and Capital Their Re-
lation:" Richmond Planet, Richmond.
Va, chairman; Plaindealer, Michigan;
Light House, Texas; Cleveland Globe,
Ohio; Living Way, Tennessee; Baptist
Pioneer Alabama; Chattanooga Tribune,
Tennessee; Baptist Beacon, Ohio; Col
den Epoch, Arkansas; Lychburg Labor
er, Virginia; Baptist Monitor, Kentucky
Western Cyclone, Nicodemus, Kansas;
Herald, Montgomery, Ala; Citizen,
Augusta, Texas; Advance-Gazette, PEN
sacola, Fla. Discussion thereon.
2nd.-s'The New South" j. Willis
Menard, Southern Leader, chairman,
Washington Bee, District of Columbia;
National Monitor, New York; Blade,
Austin, Texas; American Protestant,
Washington, D. c.; Free Lance, Nash
vile, Tenn; Argus, indianapolis, Ind. !;
National Leader, New York; Memphis
Watch-Tower, Tenn. Discussion there
on.
3rd.-Business Committee Prof. VIM
J.Simmons, chairman; Peoples Journal,
Florida; Appeal, Raleigh, N. c., and
their report.
/ 4th.-Report of the Press Historian,
w. G. Chase, Washington Bee.
5th.-Resolutions and New Business:
National Monitor, New York, chairman
Arkansas Mansion, Arkansas; Virginia
Lancet, Virginia; Chicago Conservator,
illinois; Chattanooga Times, Tennessee;
The Soldiers Reunion, Kentucky
Texas Press, Texas.
6th.-"Journalism and Journalistic
Ethics" VIM. 81. Stuart, American Bap-
tist, chairman; Cleveland Gazette, Ohio;
Denver Sun, Colorado; Indianapolis
World, Indiana; Baptist Companion
Virginia; Journal ofthe Lodge, Louisi-
ana; Elevator, California; Cairo Gazette
Illinois; Progressive American, New
York; Baptist Preacher, Texas; Smiths
Broad AK, Pittsburg, Pa; Afro-Ameri-
can Presbyterian, Wilmington, N. c.;
Observer, st. Louis.
EVENING cLosING EXERCISES.
4 Public ratification meeting; invited
guests to speaks on topics Of interest; a
paper by the Hon. Frederick Douglass
Done by order of the Executive Com
mittee OF the Colored National Press
Association: Chairman Alexander
Phil. II. hurry, St. Louis, Mo-, st. Louis
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